My research has so-far focussed on both philosophy of language, particularly its social and political dimensions, and social epistemology, particularly epistemic vices and ignorance. Overall, I am interested in how speaking (or not speaking) and knowing (or not knowing) can be understood, and how they shape and influence our world.

My main research project in recent years has been the investigation of the communicative functions of silence – how saying nothing can communicate things. In my thesis, entitled “Your Silence Speaks Volumes”, I explored this with an adapted account of Gricean implicature – silent conversational implicature. I am particularly interested in the role silence plays in political contexts, like its relationship to deniability, silencing, dissent, assent and protest, to name a few.

My research also focusses on speech and trans equality. A co-authored chapter explores the issue of gender-neutral pronouns across languages, highlighting some difficulties with gender-neutrality in languages with grammar that is “gender-heavier” than English. Two other co-authored papers, currently in progress, explore the issue of deadnames and deadnaming.

I am strongly interested in social and political philosophy, critical race theory, feminist philosophy and trans philosophy more broadly.